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title: "Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,671 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (913), operations research (186) and economics (171). It ranks #32 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,671 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (913), operations research (186) and economics (171). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,671 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (913), operations research (186) and economics (171).
- It ranks #32 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 269 of them were published in 2025, against 68 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (172), South China University of Technology (144) and Shenzhen University (126).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (98), Pattern Recognition (76) and Knowledge-Based Systems (57).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 2,413 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 29 | 43 | 76 | 95 | 89 | 103 | 93 | 117 | 150 | 118 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 16 | 12 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 12 | 22 | 15 | 24 | 30 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 23 | 20 | 35 | 17 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 21 | 24 | 23 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 68 | 96 | 136 | 167 | 158 | 171 | 192 | 199 | 269 | 215 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 98 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 76 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 57 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 48 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 45 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 172 |
| 2 | South China University of Technology | 144 |
| 3 | Shenzhen University | 126 |
| 4 | Guangdong University of Technology | 97 |
| 5 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | 81 |
| 6 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | 53 |
| 7 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 45 |
| 8 | Guangzhou University | 42 |
| 9 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 41 |
| 10 | South China Agricultural University | 41 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 849 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 116 |
| 3 | United States | 52 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 39 |
| 5 | Australia | 34 |
| 6 | Singapore | 32 |
| 7 | Macao | 24 |
| 8 | Japan | 14 |
| 9 | Canada | 12 |
| 10 | South Korea | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 58 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 24 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 21 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 15 |
| 7 | diffusion models | 13 |
| 8 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 13 |
| 9 | convergence analysis | 12 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,413 | 31.7 | [Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3005434) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |
| 2 | 2,003 | 25.3 | [Deep Learning for Image Super-Resolution: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2982166) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-03-23 | Zhihao Wang, Jian Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi |
| 3 | 1,090 | 14.6 | [Deep learning on image denoising: An overview](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.07.025) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-08-05 | Chunwei Tian, Lunke Fei, Wenxian Zheng et al. |
| 4 | 996 | 19.2 | [ESG disclosure and financial performance: Moderating role of ESG investors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102291) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2022-07-09 | Zhongfei Chen, Guanxia Xie |
| 5 | 845 | 7.3 | [Enhanced skeleton visualization for view invariant human action recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.02.030) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2017-03-03 | Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Chen Chen |
| 6 | 694 | 10.3 | [Do carbon emission trading schemes stimulate green innovation in enterprises? Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120744) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-03-21 | Zhongfei Chen, Xiao Zhang, Fanglin Chen |
| 7 | 551 | 16.7 | [A Survey on Generative Diffusion Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3361474) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-02-02 | Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan, Zhangyang Gao et al. |
| 8 | 475 | 5.4 | [Multi-class Arrhythmia detection from 12-lead varied-length ECG using Attention-based Time-Incremental Convolutional Neural Network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.06.024) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-06-17 | Qihang Yao, Ruxin Wang, Xiaomao Fan et al. |
| 9 | 424 | 4.9 | [Lightweight Pyramid Networks for Image Deraining](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2926481) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-07-22 | Xueyang Fu, Borong Liang, Yue Huang et al. |
| 10 | 419 | 6.6 | [A survey on evolutionary computation for complex continuous optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10042-y) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2021-07-27 | Zhi‐Hui Zhan, Lin Shi, Kay Chen Tan et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-guangdong-province

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  title = {Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).